Author's Note: Again with the lack of reviews, what a shame, but I suppose I can't expect every story I write to be monstrously successful.
Running, over decayed corpse, under rotted tree, that was all Ruby could do right now. Right now her potential as a Grave Digger was at it's peak, but so long as there were fresh souls to torment, so was Thresh, and of the two of them Thresh was the one with significant more experience. But just because she was running, doesn't mean that she can't fight, what it meant is that she needed a opening. Thresh was doing well keeping up with her, as Ruby had observed during Thresh's league matches, his chains possessed the power of short range teleportation. All Thresh had to do was attach his chain to the point where he wanted to be and he would be there, or alternatively he could attach a chain to a ally, enemy or obstacle send the the other end somewhere he wanted the first thing to be, and it would go there in a flash. Thresh was even 'kind' enough to demonstrate this point no less than three times already with a bear, a tree and himself. In addition to being good for Ambushes, this annoying ability also made Thresh hard to hit, whenever Ruby had his fiery glowing skull in sight he had already moved out of the way and her shot only served to obliterate a tree. But now Ruby had a plan.
"You're never going to catch me Thresh!" Ruby stated before she fired her weapon into the ground shooting her off into the air.
"Wanna bet!?" For those who cannot fly, taking to the air is a crucial often fatal mistake. Without the ability to fly, the only way for one to take to the air would be to jump, which means that you can only go in a straight line, which means that you cannot evade a attack. Thus Thresh sent several of his meat hook tipped chains after Ruby. "Gotcha!"
With Thresh having fallen for her ruse Ruby put her plan into action. Ruby slammed her scythe down on the on coming chains tangling them on the end of Blue Rose, but so long as the hooks did not connect with anything, the Chain Warden would not be able to teleport again. Thus as soon as she landed Ruby took off through the forest as fast as her scythe shot enhanced legs could carry her, dragging the undead chain wielder through stone, tree and any undead creature Ruby could find as she went back to the Cyclops. It was once they were outside that Thresh had the opportunity to halt the make shift land skiing trip by slamming his scythe into the ground. Not only that, but the sudden stop allowed the hooks to briefly connect to Blue Rose allowing Thresh to yank it out of her hands with another teleport.
"You will pay for this indignity!" Thresh unleashed a huge swarm of his chains at Ruby, simultaneously producing a attack of huge size and a massive barrier of chains to protect himself. Ruby quickly ducked into the ship, listening to the Rat-A-Tat-A-Tat of the metal chains bouncing off of the metal side of the ship as the door had already slammed shut on him.
"Gotta catch me first!" Was the last thing that Ruby said before she disappeared into the ship, Thresh swarming chains finding every single opening in the ship in a effort to hunt Ruby down.
"YOU!" Suddenly, Thresh felt a iron clasp clamp down on his shoulder, if who ever it was squeezed any harder, his shoulder would be crushed, more than that though it was hot, as if burning tar had been pored on top. Thresh turned his head and bore witnessed to an enraged blonde who had been set aflame. "LEAVE! HER! ALONE!" Yang slammed her fist into Thresh's face knocking him back several feet, followed up grabbing his sickle and slamming it business end first into Thresh's chest, before finally slamming her fist into Thresh's chin hard enough to send him flying through the air. "You like playing with chains so much!" Yang grabbed a hold of Thresh's chains, she slammed the end that Thresh was connected to into the cyclops, causing the chain to get caught on a flag pole sticking out of the ship. "Then lets play!"
Yang yanked down on her end of the chains slamming Thresh's head into the pole from his end of the chain being suddenly yanked upwards, and was similarly yanked up several more times by Yang repeatedly having his head smashed in as a consequence.
"ENOUGH OF THIS NONSENSE!" Thresh commanded one of his chains pierce Yang's side, providing him with an opening to switch places with her so that Yang was the one hanging from a flag pole on the end of a chain while he was ready to hoist her up and smash her face in like she had his. "LET'S SEE HOW YOU LIKE IT!"
However, Thresh's attempts to yank on Yang were interrupted by Yang ripping his blade out of her and using it to yank him up to her. She gave the chain the bare minimum amount of movement possible, grabbing the weapon itself and wrapping the chain around her arm tightly. Finally, when Thresh was face to face with her Yang grabbing him by his neck and slammed him face first into the side of the ship. Not one to let something like that stop him Thresh hooked Yang again and teleported her further up the ship.
"Same old tricks? And I thought Hecarim was a one trick Pony!" Thresh ripped his hook away from Yang and used another to teleport away. There is nothing that he would like more right now than to take the soul of this woman, and inflict every bit of suffering she had onto him times a thousand, but the minds of the souls he had already gathered were on the verge of breaking, which meant that his power was about to hit rock bottom, he needed to get away, and fast. "Where do you think you are going!?" But before he could leave, Yang had him by his chain and was swinging him around through the air repeatedly slamming his face down in the ground.
"YANG!" Yang looked into the air and saw Ruby camped out on the main gun of the ship. "Get him up here!" Having some idea of what Ruby was planning Yang nodded in agreement. Yang yanked Thresh to her and tied him up with his own chains before throwing him into the barrel of the cannon. "Buh Bye!" Saying that Ruby, who had connected the magic generator she had found earlier directly to the gun, and powered it up using her Grave Digger magic to turn the gun into a massive anti-undead weapon.
The gun fired a huge red blast of magical energy into the heart of the Isles, the only things left of Thresh was his soul, struggling with his chains as they tried to shove him directly into his own lantern.
"GYAHH! AHHH! AAAAAHHHHHAAAAA...!" Even Thresh's screams were sealed away.
"Ruby!" With the issue of the chain warden dealt with the only real thing left to do here was get Ruby to safety, thus Yang jumped up to meet Ruby on the gun.
"YANG!" The two sisters went through their customary process of Yang crushing Ruby's spine with a hug and Ruby turning into a zombie for the duration of the embrace.
Once Yang had let go Ruby realized that she was covered in blood that wasn't hers.
"Yang! You're bleeding!" During her little skirmish with Thresh Yang had her flesh ripped by him several times, normally enchanted weapons would just get their magic sucked out and turn to dust as soon as they touched her, but considering that Yang was actively avoiding taking in anymore death magic they had suddenly become far more effective. It worked to her advantage anyway, considering how well she turned the chains against the psychotic undead.
"Don't worry about it. Come on lets get you out of here." Yang whipped out her card and was about to make contact with their exit strategy when she was suddenly pierced through the side by a huge lance.
"Found you at last." The one responsible was none other than Hecarim, having finally tracked down the Yang that got away Hecarim watched as she fell off of the multi story makeshift tower and crash into the ground.
"Yang!" Ruby ran down the side of the ship as she had done before, but this time she had control over her descent and thus was able to stop right in front of Yang, leaving her Rose petals to float through the air.
"Roses?" Hecarim watched the petals drift to the ground and burst into flame as soon as they made contact with the death imbued ground. "A Grave Digger!? The League dares to send the cursed lineage of the Rose here!?" Hecarim then took a closer look, immediately he saw a difference between Yang and Ruby, not one a normal person would notice, but one that a Champion of the League of Legends would. "No you weren't summoned here at all, this is not a attack but a rescue mission." The crying Ruby was startled when she saw Hecarim's lance ripped out of Yang's body and fly back into Hecarim's grasp. "On top of that, A failure." Ruby, tears streaming down from her eyes, glared hatefully at the undead horseman.
The 'Church' of the spider, a foul and disgusting organization that worships a gigantic undead spider known as Vilemaw as their god. Once every year, it's priestess would bring individuals seeking to be made immortal to the Shadow Isles.
"Great Vilemaw!" Speaking of the Spider Witch, Elise herself stood in between the group of followers and the nest of the giant spider. "I have brought you new inductee's, awaiting to receive your great blessing and join you in glorious immortality!"
It wasn't a total lie, once Vilemaw has sucked them dry their discarded corpses become host to the undead energies of the Shadow Lands and mixed with the magical venom inside of their bodies they are transformed into the undying undead and from there Vilemaw's spawn planted inside of their body's slowly grow and take over the body until the two become completely one. The end result is not too different from Elise with bits of spider growing out of them. Now naturally, when describing Vilemaw the Spider God to her followers Elise described him as a grand and majestic creature, beautifully divine, a stalwart defender, and perhaps the only thing keeping the Shadow Isles at bay. She was certainly telling the truth when she said that it was a giant spider, the rest on the other hand was clearly a lie. What crawled out of it's little hiding hole was a monster of incredible size, it's hardened carapace was covered in slime, some kind of mold or rot from the Isles themselves, it's fattened body was so massively hulking the thing couldn't even move properly anymore, nor for that matter could it for a very long time if appearances could be believed. To add insult to injury, the only one here who could truly be called immortal was Elise, so long as she kept supplying the spider with victims to feed on the spider would continue to give her it's feeding venom, something that was originally conceived to keep it's meal alive long enough to finish sucking the life out of them, but as Elise discovered a long time ago it was equally effective at keeping people that it wasn't feeding on alive too. And Elise would soon be needing another dose, not because as she had done so before felt the weight of her long life on her shoulders, but because one of her would be sacrifices had just run her through her back with her black blade.
"Hmm. I was wondering what you looked like." Her hood down Blake yanked her blade out of Elise's back, never for one moment taking her attention off of the giant spider god.
"RRREEEEEEEIIIIIEEEE!" Elise's ear piercing shriek summoned forth a hoard of spider monsters, even if Vilemaw herself was immobile, her children were not.
"Oh please." Suddenly a huge storm of freezing lightning came down from the sky and brought it's wrath upon the spiders, freezing and shattering them into dust. "Anyone who doesn't want to become a meal for that thing will go back to the ship right this instant!" Weiss, her hood down now too, stated prompting the others to flee.
Even though they knew they would try they wouldn't be able to get the ship working, not without the key around Elise's neck. Blake and Weiss had no delusions of taking Vilemaw this day, the cheap copy used as an obstacle in league matches didn't do it the least bit of justice. But at the same time it didn't seem interested in leaving it's hobble to chase after them. No matter how Weiss and Blake looked at it, rather than a god they got the impression of a overfed house cat that looked annoyed that it wouldn't be spoon fed it's meal today. As such the fat and slovenly thing decided to retreat as far back as it's oversize body would let it.
"Now that we've secured the exit strategy the only thing left to do is wait for Yang and Ruby." Blake stated prompting Weiss to nod.
Suddenly however, a huge pillar of bright red flame shot out from the island into the sky. "We might be waiting a while."